Book reviews and recommendations:
American singing groups, a history from 1940 to today
Rosa Raisa, A Biography of a Diva with selections from her memoirs
Alma Rosé: Vienna to Auschwitz
The Inextinguishable Symphony; A true story of music and love in Nazi Germany
Song of Survival; Women Interned
Michael Rabin, America’s Virtuoso Violinist
A whole new mind. Why right brainers will rule the future
Caruso and Tetrazzini on the Art of Singing
Institutionalizing classical European music and opera in post-Ottoman Turkey.
Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts at the NY Phil
The Nineteenth-Century German Lied
The Great Tenor Tragedy /The Last Days of Adolphe Nourrit As Told (Mostly) by Himself
The Sibyl Sanderson Story and Eleonora Duse
The Sibyl Sanderson Story, an authorized biography
Nicolai Gedda, My life and art
Victor Lederer, “Chopin: A Listener’s Guide to the Master of the Piano”
Enrico Caruso my father and my family